Repository:
University of California, Irvine. Library.
Special Collections and Archives.

Irvine, California 92623-9557

Abstract: This collection comprises offprints of critical theory articles published by Louis Marin, and a bibliography of his work.
The bulk of the materials are in French and English.

Language:
English.

Administrative Information

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and
their heirs. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact the Head of Special Collections and University Archives.

For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this
collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Francoise Marin, 1999.

Processing History

Processed by Andre Ambrus, 2002.

Biography

Louis Marin, French post-structuralist thinker, was born in 1931 in France. He attended the University of Paris, Sorbonne
and graduated with a Licence in Philosophy in 1952. His degree was followed in 1953 with an Agrégé in Philosophy and with
a Docteur d'Etat in 1973.

Marin taught at the University of Nanterre, Paris from 1967-1970, the University of California, San Diego from 1970-1974,
Johns Hopkins University from 1974-1977, and finally at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris from 1977-1992.
He was also an Associate of the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University from 1985 until his death.

Marin was widely known for his work in a variety of areas: linguistics, semiotics, theology, philosophy, anthropology, rhetoric,
art and institutional history and literary theory. Throughout his career, Marin's main intellectual focus was seventeenth-century
French literature, particularly the works of Pascal, Perrault, Poussin and Philippe de Champaigne. In addition, he published
numerous articles on the visual arts and religious texts.

Louis Marin died in Paris on October 29, 1992.

Collection Scope and Content Summary

This collection comprises offprints of critical theory articles published by Louis Marin, and a bibliography of his work.
The bulk of the materials are in French and English.

The articles are arranged alphabetically by title, with date of publication indicated parenthetically following the title.